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a traditional fairy tale: nasty and unfair

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

February 21, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

A princess, a tower, a witch, a fairy- you know this story, right? If you are well-versed in the nasty beginnings of most beloved fairy tales, then probably yes. If you are familiar with the delightfully cracked work of Tamsyn Muir then also, yes. If you are coming in seeing a blonde princess in a tower and thinking Disney, then absolutely not! Princess Floralinda is your traditional princess: beautiful, naïve, and imprisoned in a tower. She was put up there by a witch; and while […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: adventure, audio, fable, fairy tale, moira quirk, novella, survival, tamsyn muir

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: adventure, audio, fable, fairy tale, moira quirk, novella, survival, tamsyn muir ·
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Don’t you hate it when you’ve hit the ripe old age of 29 and have experienced all the world has to offer, so you rip a hole in reality so you can cavort with pain demons just for a change of pace?

Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

February 19, 2021 by Bothari43 2 Comments

(Trigger warnings for various unsavoriness.) I like my horror with a heaping helping of cheese (Slither, Night of the Comet, Cabin in the Woods), so I have never read any Clive Barker, and I’ve never seen Hellraiser. So when my sci-fi library book club picked Hellbound Heart, the book the movie Hellraiser is based on, I was not sure what to expect. I mean, I was expecting gross stuff and a guy with pins in his face, but I was not expecting such unlikeable characters. […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Cenobites, Clive Barker, Hellraiser, novella, unlikeable protagonists

Bothari43's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Cenobites, Clive Barker, Hellraiser, novella, unlikeable protagonists ·
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rain, rain, go away

Summerwater by Sarah Moss

February 9, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Is there anyone who isn’t at least slightly maddened by days and days on rain? I’ve spent many summers working outdoors under mostly temporary cover. It’s been years, but I vividly remember the feeling of perpetually wet socks and bones that felt internally chilled. In the summer of 2008, when I was working as an adventure guide at a camp in the White Mountains, it rained 29 days in June and 30 days in July. We ran out of “rainy day” activities less than a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: audio, Britain, holiday park, morven christie, novella, sarah moss, scotland, summer vacation, vacation

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: audio, Britain, holiday park, morven christie, novella, sarah moss, scotland, summer vacation, vacation ·
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A masterclass in the novella; body horror and racism collide.

Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark

February 7, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 4 Comments

We know that the people who join the Ku Klux Klan are monsters. Average people who act in monstrous, horrible ways. But what if some of the Klan members were actual monsters? Giant, hulking, dog-like beasts that want to consume and destroy Black people? Such is the premise of Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark. Maryse, a Black woman, hunts these monsters in Prohibition America with the help of her magical sword infused with the anger, pain, and despair of Black men and women of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: body horror, gullah, lgbt, monsters, novella, P. Djèlí Clark, prohibition, Racism, Ring Shout, stone mountain, the birth of a nation

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: body horror, gullah, lgbt, monsters, novella, P. Djèlí Clark, prohibition, Racism, Ring Shout, stone mountain, the birth of a nation ·
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A very put-down-able novella

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

February 2, 2021 by Rooooomie 5 Comments

Amanda, a young woman, lies in a hospital. We don’t know how she got there, or what’s wrong with her. Sitting on her bed is a young boy, David, who is not her son, but who nonetheless seems to know a lot about her. David is urging Amanda to tell her story, to be observant, but to be quick, as she doesn’t have much time left. What follows is a somewhat suspenseful story that touches on a few interesting themes, including parenthood, but ultimately doesn’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: CBR13, novella, samanta schweblin

Rooooomie's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: CBR13, novella, samanta schweblin ·
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